Isolation In Ernest Hemingway's The Yellow Wallpaper

The significance of the room and the foreboding mood implied by the language used to describe it, clearly points out isolation as the cause to instability. Jane, the mentally unstable narrator of the story, is forced to stay in a vacation home in order to get better or so her husband hopes. Jane hates the room she stays in and especially the wallpaper, being left alone by her husband she just stares at it, “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing”. This figurative imagery suggests that being left alone in this room that is “torturing” will not make her better and that it may end up causing her more issues. The madness that consumes Jane seems to be fed by the room. The literal imagery shown in the sentence, “It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow
Jane, “used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy store.” revealing her sickness has been fostered before when she was left alone at night as a child. As an adult we are often left to ourselves more, and for a mentally disturbed individual the result of that loneliness can be tragic as with Jane's case. Proclaiming her success in releasing the woman she saw in the wallpaper and destruction of the paper, “‘I've got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!’”. This unfortunate event was caused from Jane being left alone and seeing “the faint figure seemed to shake the pattern just as if she wanted to get out.” Suggesting that in spite of herself, she still released the woman she is verifies the extreme instability caused from Jane’s